A fundraising circular for Mary McLeod Bethune’s all-black Bethune Cookman College in Florida. Celebrated African-American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)—fondly known as “The First Lady of The Struggle”—is best known for founding this private college for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida. Born to.....
A charming broadside advertising the services of American silhouettist Moses Chapman, illustrated with silhouette cuts of a man and a woman and specifying costs and other particulars. Chapman informs the public that he is available from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm, and takes “correct Profiles, reduced to any size, two.....
A group of three circulars (and original envelope) issued by a patent medicine company that manufactured a pain killer advertised as a “no quack nostrum,” these examples sent to a minister in Maine. Based in Pittsburgh, Robert Monroe Kennedy invented and patented as early as 1869 the product advertised here.....
An apparently unrecorded circular detailing the Court Martial of an African American soldier (and former Virginia slave) who was convicted of three charges and executed by firing squad. As specified here, Private Samuel Mapp of the 10th U.S. Colored Troops, Co. D was charged with mutiny, disobedience of orders, and.....
Two unrecorded circulars and a letter sent by a New Orleans land agent Colonel W. R. Stuart to a prominent Texas land businessman Leonidas Cartwright in 1884, constituting an apparently unsuccessful attempt via correspondence to go into business with the affluent Texan. The first circular covers “great bargains” on orange.....
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A group of three scarce circulars issued to promote a St. Louis Sanitary Fair in 1864. The Western Sanitary Commission's biggest fund-raising event was the Grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. The Commission was a private agency devoted to aiding the Union Army’s sick and wounded soldiers. Led by abolitionists and.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. Upham’s lines crown Lincoln a “martyr” and call for national mourning: “Drape every dwelling in sable night: / Symbol of deep lamentation!” In addition, the song calls for “a garland of lilies white” to be wreathed.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. The “bewailing” nation is here characterized as crying for “Lincoln, the merciful, doomed to die.” The first chorus calls for the punishment of John Wilkes Booth and crowns Lincoln a “martyr”: “Strike, strike the traitor down!.....